Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In this blog series on how elevating cognitive performance is a game changer for organizations, I’ve invited Neil Smith, CTO at Think Outcomes , to join me in writing on this important topic due to his expertise and the cognitive performance software his firm has created.). collaborate. By Daniel Burrus and Neil Smith. (In

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Planview

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. 2016 and Digital: The Year of Innovation, Collaboration, Disruption. Today, many are rethinking banking relationships with consumers, and are leveraging digital technology to fuel new product offerings. Build, Buy Or Collaborate: 5 Secrets For Success. Read more →. Read more →.

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Information Playground

JUNE 4, 2015

I recently attended an all-hands meeting for the Office of the CTO sponsored by Chief Technology Officer John Roese.  Over the years the Office of the CTO has published advice on how to submit better ideas. The importance of idea collaboration. dick costolo (@dickc) June 2, 2015.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Genovese is an innovative IT professional with over 20 years of experience driving revenue and profit increases through value-enabling technologies for employers and clients around the world. I advise Enterprise CxO’s on Technology and Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Innovation and Emerging Technology.

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Taivara

AUGUST 23, 2018

Next, understand your unique legacy environment and design a custom approach that maps similar data elements from different sources into a data model that a non-technical business leader can both understand and manipulate. Next, you will need an enabling technology. Customer Engagement (e.g. Let's work together.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. The event held in San Francisco in 2014 drew over 100 professionals collaborated to come up with solutions to improve employee engagement. Hackathons—an underrated tool. Hackathons can give you the vision.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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Information Playground

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This week I was in Dublin, Ireland to attend ITAC Europe (EMC's Industry Technical Advisory Council). During the meeting the CTO of EMC shared his thoughts on the technology direction of the company. The CTO of EMC talked for 3.5 Review the seven habits of intrapreneurship. hours with a dozen customers.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They reported directly to the CTO. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations. Strategic mandate – Sustaining or incremental innovation was off limits. It can be done.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. The Downside of Data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

But Apple’s most impressive achievement on display at yesterday’s announcement was not a technological feat — although the technology on display was certainly impressive. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. To do what Apple just did requires deep industry collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Select a CEO based on leadership, interpersonal skills, and a knack for creating a supportive culture of collaboration. The culture should be both responsive to customers and collaborative, supporting effective teamwork. In addition, it is critical to hire a CEO who will create the right culture. Break away from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. Because of that, the people who were in government who couldn’t take risks could come to us, and we could collaborate on something. It’s about the people, it’s really not about technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa. Here are a few of the key areas in which companies differ in what they want from a PM: Technical skill – The type of product, who uses it and/or the type of company will determine how technical a PM needs to be. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Rather than relying on slow, expensive supply chains to import disaster relief, Field Ready empowers people in disaster-struck areas with the technology and expertise to make life-saving and life-sustaining supplies onsite. To help disaster victims realize their own recovery, Field Ready teams begin by listening.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

As people from both countries collaborated to build a textile industry in Bangladesh, most of the culture clash seemed to focus on food: Kimchi made the Bangladeshis vomit, and the South Koreans found the Bangladeshi food repellent. So should we fight it — as is becoming more and more common — or play along?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The measure of value requires external validation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. These robots are capable of collaborating to pick a typical 50-item order in a matter of minutes. AI at Ocado. AI for Good.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. but it can be challenging for companies to start getting their feet wet experimenting with this amalgam of technologies, let alone to deploy them at scale. The robots collaborate to pick (typically) 50-item customer orders in just a few minutes. Industry 4.0

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. In other words, IT must become a business-driven, front-office function.

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hackerearth

JULY 14, 2021

This is exactly what we talked about in Episode 3 of the Tech Stack Playbook , Are Hackathons Just for the Pros ? This is when you will be building a full-stack application that must accomplish a specific goal or set of goals and be presentable for the judges to review and possibly use. Things to know going into a hackathon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

what is a feature supposed to accomplish) and collaborating across domains of expertise on experiments, all in the spirit of driving learning and not careening down a path that proves to be incorrect. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Software development should be a no-handoff, collaborative process.

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